GOD FORBID Guitarist: 'Making This Record Has Severely F**ked With My Head'

GOD FORBID guitarist Dallas Coyle has written the latest entry for his weekly column on MetalSucks, "The Hard R." This week Dallas offers an update on the recording process for GOD FORBID's new album, which the band just finished recording with producer Christian Olde Wolbers (FEAR FACTORY) in Los Angeles. An excerpt from the blog follows:

"This recording process has been the most excruciating for all of us. Recording fucking sucks. One reason it sucks is because once it's done it's out there forever. It's like the final seconds of a tied game and a player has to make the winning shot. You either hit it or you don't. The second reason is we can't make a living while working on a record. Many people think bands get paid to record when in reality we're not getting paid when we're working on the record. Usually we have a budget that involves monthly bills for each member but since we ran over time and budget we were pretty much in L.A. for a month with no income coming in. So right now as I write this my bank account is shot to shit and I'm looking for some consultation opportunities because I have to play catch up. It's a constant game of catch-up really. All life is if you think about it.

"Unless you are fortunate enough to make enough money to save while living, it seems like we are constantly looking over our shoulder at the next financial hurdle. When I worked a real job, I lived week to week. Now I live money increment to money increment. Unless we're on the road we don't see money week to week. It's here and there and it can fuck with your head.

"Making this record has severely fucked with my head. When you have to create every day for 8 to 12 hours a day it can really mush things in your brain. I wasn't able to write scripts, work on other music or even think while we were doing these vocals. I wanted to make this record the best it could be and for the first time ever in our career I'm not sure we have succeeded. Before, I knew it was the best! Now, I don't think about it. Expectations can make a good thing dog shit. There are always people who like your last album more than the new one. There are so many people who say 'Determination' is the shit then they don't like 'Gone Forever' and then they love 'Constitution'. How are we supposed to know?

"We've finished vocals but the process isn't over. We still haven't mixed or mastered the record. We haven't solidified all of the artwork. For me, the record isn't done till you see the whole package. In one sense, it's very sad because the iPod generation doesn't really get that. As a musician the process is very personal and seeing the final product is like seeing your baby for the first time. There's the release date, the video, the press, the reviews — it's such a process and once you've been through it a bunch it can get to you. I'm happy I have some time to chill out and get my post-album shit going."

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